Category: funding

dishq, a Bengaluru (India) based AI startup, that leverages food science and machine learning to predict people’s taste, announced today a pre-seed investment of $400K. This round has been funded by several investors including, Techstars’ first food / ag tech focused accelerator called Farm To Fork, and Arts Alliance. “There is no question in my mind that Kishan, Sai and team are building something great here. There is a ton of opportunity in this…

TL;DR – a year of two halves. First 6 months was about pivoting from B2C to B2B, a sad but necessary decision. Second half of the year was about accelerating and validating our new business plan, and networking like crazy in order to start selling our tech. Bottom line, dishq has never been stronger. === Two years ago today, I started working full-time on dishq. It’s insane how fast the year has flown by and…

By Sai Sreenivas Kodur, Co-Founder & CTO It was during June 2017, when we finished the first step of shaping dishq into a B2B company, ramping up the first version of product and signing up the first pilot client. Kishan (Co-Founder) and I have never worked in pure B2B companies, and I must say, the initial transition was hard. We soon realised that we would need an advisor who could help with this B2B journey,…

Around mid-July, we found out that dishq had been accepted into batch 2 of the Zeroth.ai Accelerator! There’s so many reasons we’re happy about this but here’s our top 3: 1) This accelerator is based out of Hong Kong so we’ll be spending some time over there widening our network of investors, potential customers and fellow batch companies. There’s some seriously interesting startups in the batch! 2) Zeroth focuses on machine learning and artificial intelligence…